Speaker Details

Pieter van der Meulen

ORG SURFnet TitleBIO
Pieter van der Meulen is Technical Product Manager in the department of
Middleware Services (MWS) at SURFnet. He is responsible for the
technical management of the SURFconext service. SURFconext is the
collaboration platform for the Dutch higher education and research
community that combines Federated Identity Management with groups for
authorization and collaboration purposes. Before Pieter came to SURFnet
in 2011 he worked at Advanced Encryption Technology (AET) where he was
the technical lead of a team developing a software suite used for
producing and managing smart cards and digital identities. During this
time he designed solutions for projects with international customers in
government, finance and industry. Pieter has been writing software from
an early age on, and continues to do so. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Twente.